If you look at the XML numbers in my performance article, you'll see that XML is very memory and CPU intensive. There's very little you can do about XML eating tons of resources and being slow.
Until motherboards come with XML accelerators built in, XML performance will be slow. You may want to consider using hardware accelerators, or not using XML, if performance is really important. This is true of all XML parsers be it C, C++, .NET, Java, Perl or Python. Some are faster than others, but they are all CPU and memory intensive. peter lin --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard
